The US government could save lives if it applied 1% of the money it spends on terrorism (“foreign-born terrorists have killed roughly one American per year”) towards preventing death by medical error, which kills 250,000 Americans a year and is the third leading cause of death. It probably won’t happen though.

Well, personally I sure as hell hope it doesn’t happen.

Right now, this very moment, political science majors are overriding highly trained physicians.

Hack politicians, abetted by high-school dropout media pundits, are sanctimoniously taking control of determining who can be prescribed painkillers. Because politicians are so much more trustworthy, right?

And as a direct result of this uninformed interference with medical praxis, heroin abuse is on the uptick and private prison owners are chortling with glee.

Ok, while it ispainfully obvious that the US has odd spending policies that ignore statistics…how would you spend that money to avoid medical error?

The obvious approaches are reducing working hours and getting a second opinion which doesn’t seem like something the American government is well positioned to enforce given the “free market is best” ideology.

Hack politicians, abetted by high-school dropout media pundits, are sanctimoniously taking control of determining who can be prescribed painkillers. Because politicians are so much more trustworthy, right?

You mean line moving up Tramadol to Schedule IV?

Thanks to my appointment dates varying some, somehow now I am nearly a week off from when I get my prescription and when I can actually pick it up.

Last doctor visit they said they were talking about bumping up Nerontin. WTF? Can you even abuse that?

The US government could save lives if it applied 1% of the money it spends on terrorism (“foreign-born terrorists have killed roughly one American per year”) towards preventing death by medical error, which kills 250,000 Americans a year and is the third leading cause of death.

You already spend far beyond what any other nation spends on healthcare and this is the result. Worse, the rise in costs show no sign of stopping. I don’t believe throwing more money at an endless pit is going to help you.